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Copyright, 1921 , 

By THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY 



SEP 14 1921 


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Preface 

The compiler of this Calendar wishes to express 
appreciation of the courtesy of several authors and 
publishers in granting permission for the use of 
quotations:— 

To Houghton Mifflin Company for extracts from 
Whittier and John Burroughs; to Charles Scrib¬ 
ner’s Sons and Dr. Henry van Dyke for selections 
from the latter; to G. P. Putnam’s Sons for quota¬ 
tions from A. C. Benson’s “Beside Still Waters”; 
to Harper & Brothers for quotation from George 
William Curtis’s “Essays from the Easy Chair”; to 
the Macmillan Company for a stanza from poems, 
“When the Birds go North Again,” by Ella Hig- 
ginson; to Little, Brown and Company and Eliza 
Calvert Hall for sentences from “Aunt Jane of Ken¬ 
tucky”; to E. P. Dutton and Madison Cawein 
for verses from the latter’s poem, “The Vale of 
Tempe”; to John Vance Cheney for stanzas from 
his “Poems” (Houghton Mifflin Company); to 
Clinton Scollard for selected verses from his books, 
“Hills of Song” and “Easter Song”; and to The 
Bobbs-Merrill Company for selected verses from 
James Whitcomb Riley. 

Annie Russell Marble. 





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FIRST 

Ring out the old, ring in 
the new. 

Ring happy bells across the 
snow: 

The year is going, let him 
go; 

Ring out the false, ring in 
the true. 

T ennyson 

SECOND 

Do the duty which lies 
nearest to thee, which thou 
knowest to be a Duty! Thy 
second duty will already have 
become clearer. 

Carlyle 

THIRD 

The buds may blow, and the 
fruit may grow. 

And the. autumn leaves 
drop crisp and sear; 

But whether the sun, or the 
rain, or the snow, 

There is ever a song some¬ 
where, my dear. 

James Whitcomb Riley 
Copyright, 1905. The 
Bobbs - Merrill Com¬ 
pany, 

fourth 


What a man does, that he 
has. What has he to. do with 
hope or fear? In himself is 
his might. 


Emerson 














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FIFTH 

It will help us in learning 
the lesson of cheerfulness if 
we persistently train our¬ 
selves to see the good things, 
the bright things, in our com¬ 
mon life. 

J, R. Miller 


SIXTH 

Let us be of good cheer, 
however, remembering that 
the misfortunes hardest to 
bear are those which never 
come. 

Lowell 


SEVENTH 

Presentiment of better things 
on earth 

Sweeps in with every force 
that, stirs our souls 

To admiration, self-renounc¬ 
ing love. 

George Eliot 


EIGHTH 

A generous prayer is never 
presented in vain; the peti¬ 
tion may be refused, but the 
petitioner is always, I be¬ 
lieve, rewarded by some gra¬ 
cious visitation. 

Robert Louis Stevenson 














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NINTH 

There shall never be one lost .. 

good! What was, shall 

live as before: .■ 

The evil is null, is naught, is 

silence implying sound. . 

Browning 


TENTH 


One train of deep emotion 
cannot fill up the heart: it 
radiates like a star. God-ward 
and earth-ward. 

“Ik Marvel” 


ELEVENTH 

Yet the will is free; 

Strong is the soul, and wise .. . 

and beautiful; 

The seeds of godlike power .. 

are in us still; 

Gods are we, bards, saints, 
heroes, if we will. 

Matthew Arnold 


TWELFTH 

I will praise thee, O Lord, .. 

with my whole heart; 

I will shew forth all Thy .. 

marvelous works. 

I will be glad and rejoice in . 

them. 

Psalm tv 














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THIRTEENTH 

I will not shut me from my 

kind, _ . 

And, lest I stiffen into 

stone, . 

I will not eat my heart 
alone. 

Nor feed with sighs a pass¬ 
ing wind. 

Tennyson 


FOURTEENTH 

The optimist has the power .. 

of seeing things in their en¬ 
tirety and in their right re- .. 

lations. 

Ralph W. Trine 


FIFTEENTH 

Good humor may be said .. 

to be one of the very best 

articles of dress one can wear . 

in society. 

Thackeray .. 


SIXTEENTH 

Oh, every heart hath its sor¬ 
row, ... 

And < every heart hath its 

pain— _ .... 

But a day is always coming 
When the birds go North 
again. 


Ella Higginson 














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SEVENTEENTH 

Cato said the best way to . 

keep good acts in memory 

was to refresh them with . 

new. 

Bacon 


EIGHTEENTH 

The happiest heart that ever 

beat . 

Was in some quiet breast 

That found the common day. 

light sweet. 

And left to Heaven the . 

rest. 

John Vance Cheney 


NINETEENTH 

Let us have faith that 
right makes might; and in 

that faith let us dare to do . 

our duty as we understand it. 

Abraham Lincoln . 


TWENTIETH 

What is called poetic in¬ 
sight is the gift of discern- .***** 

ing, in this sphere of strange¬ 
ly mingled elements, the . 

beauty and the majesty which 

are compelled to assume a . 

garb so sordid. 


Hawthorne 














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TWENTY-FIRST 

The blessed work of help¬ 
ing the world forward, hap¬ 
pily does not have to be done . 

by perfect men. 

George Eliot .. 


TWENTY-SECOND 

All is best, though we oft 

doubt, . 

What the unsearchable dis¬ 
pose . 

Of highest wisdom brings 

about, . 

And ever best found in .*.•••••••••• 

the close. 

Milton 


TWENTY-THIRD 

The body of all truth dies; 

and yet in all, I say, there .. 

is a soul which never dies; 

which in new and ever- .. 

nobler embodiment lives as 

immortal as man himself. . . . . 

Carlyle . 

TWENTY-FOURTH 

I believe it! ’Tis thou, God, 

that, givest, ’tis I who . 

receive: 

In the first is the last, in Thy . 

will is my power to be¬ 
lieve. 


Browning 














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TWENTY-FIFTH 

Don’t be a cynic and dis... 

consolate preacher. Don’t be¬ 
wail and bemoan. Omit the . 

negative propositions. 

Emerson 


TWENTY-SIXTH 

From dales of doubt and 
peaks of care 
No woe-winds blow with 
chill annoy; 

They walk in earth’s diviner . 

air. 

These comrades leal, Con- ... 

tent and Joy. 

Clinton Scollard 


TWENTY-SEVENTH 

That is for the good of .. 

each thing which the univer¬ 
sal nature brings to each.... 

And it is for its good at the 
time nature brings it. 

Marcus Aurelius 


TWENTY-EIGHTH 

God scatters love on every 
side. 

Freely among his children . 

all. 

And always hearts are lying . 

open wide. 

Wherein some grains may 

fall. . 

James Russell Lowell 














January 


TWENTY-NINTH 


The strongest of all obsta¬ 
cles to the advance of evil is 
a clean and generous man, 
doing his duty from day to 
day. 


Henry van Dyke 


THIRTIETH 


Cheerful beliefs about the 
unseen world . . . will il¬ 
luminate the dark places on 
the pathway of earthly life, 
and brighten all the road. 


Charles W. Eliot 


THIRTY-FIRST 


Kindness is wisdom. There 
is none in life 

But needs it and may learn. 


Bailey 












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FIRST 

Hope is the best possession. . 

None are completely wretch¬ 
ed but those who are with- . 

out hope. 

Haslitt . 


SECOND 

’Tis not in mortals to com¬ 
mand success; 

But we’ll do more—Sempro- . 

nius—we’ll deserve it. 

Addison .. 


THIRD 

If all the world were music. 

Our hearts would often .< 

long 

For one sweet strain of si- ... 

lence. 

To break the endless song. 

Henry van Dyke 


FOURTH 

Why should we not meet, 

. . . to congratulate each 

other on the ever-glorious . 

morning? 

Thoreau . 














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FIFTH 

I try to increase the power . 

God has given me to see the 
best in everything and ev¬ 
ery one, and make that Best 
a part of my life. 

Helen Keller . 


SIXTH 

No one is so accursed by 

fate, . 

No one so utterly desolate. 

But some heart, though .. 

known. 

Responds unto his own. .. 

Longfellow 


SEVENTH 

By eager obedience to the . 

constraining impulse is the 

march of the world accom- . 

plished. 

Arthur C. Benson 


EIGHTH 

For a’ that, an’ a’ that, 

It's cornin’ yet for a’ that, . 

That man to man the world 

o’er . 

Shall brothers be for a’ 
that. 

Robert Burns 














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NINTH 


It lies in our power to at¬ 
tune the mind to cheerful¬ 
ness. 

Auerbach 


TENTH 

To love playthings well as 

a child, to lead an adventur- . 

ous and honorable youth, and 

to settle, when the time . 

comes, into a green and smil¬ 
ing age, is to be a good . 

artist in life. 

Stevenson 


ELEVENTH 


For solitude sometimes is 
best society. 

And short retirement urges 
sweet return. 

Milton 


TWELFTH 

There is a persuasion in . 

the soul of man that he is 
here for cause, . . . that 

thus he is an overmatch for 
all the antagonists that could 

combine against him. . 

Emerson 














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THIRTEENTH 

The trumpet of a prophecy! . 

Oh, Wind, 

If Winter comes, can Spring . 

be far behind? 

Shelley . 


FOURTEENTH 

Just try the cultivation of . 

the sunny side of your na¬ 
ture for a year. It would . 

revolutionize your whole life. 

0. S. Harden ... 


FIFTEENTH 

The essence of humor is 
sensibility; warm, tender fel¬ 
low-feeling with all forms of . 

existence. 

Carlyle . 


SIXTEENTH 

“Beauty is truth, truth beau. 

ty”—that is all 

Ye know on earth, and all ye . 

need to know. 


Keats 














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SEVENTEENTH 

So, let him wait God’s in¬ 
stant men call years; ... 

Meantime, hold hard by truth 

and his great soul, . 

Do out the dutyl 

Browning . 


EIGHTEENTH 

Sing, Ho, a song of the win¬ 
try morn, . 

When the snow makes ghost¬ 
ly the wayside thorn, .. 

And hills of pearl are the 

shocks of corn. .. 

Madison Cawcin 


NINETEENTH 

Wherever affection can . 

spring, it is like the green 

leaf and the blossom—pure, . 

and breathing purity, what¬ 
ever soil it may grow in. 

George Eliot 


TWENTIETH 


Discontent is the want of 
self-reliance; it is infirmity 
of will. 


Emerson 














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TWENTY-FIRST 

Winter evenings—the world . 

shut out—with loss of cere¬ 
mony the gentle Shakespeare 
enters. At such a season 
The Tempest or his own 

Winter’s Tale. . 

Charles Lamb 


TWENTY-SECOND 


The earth is full of the 
goodness of the Lord. 

Psalm xxxiii 


TWENTY-THIRD 

It is better to suffer wrong .. 

than to do it, and happier to 

be sometimes cheated than .. 

not to trust. 

Samuel Johnson 


TWENTY-FOURTH 

Meet is it changes should 
control 

Our being, lest we rust in . 

ease, 

We all are changed by still .. 

degrees, 

All but the basis of the 

soul. .*.. 

Tennyson 














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TWENTY-FIFTH 

But fortune, good or ill, as .. 

I take it, does not change 

men and women. It but de- . 

velops their character. 

Thackeray .. 


TWENTY-SIXTH 

Doing is the great thing. .*. 

For, if resolutely, people do 

what is right, in time they . 

come to like doing it. 

Ruskin . 


TWENTY-SEVENTH 


That life is long which 
answers life’s great end. 

Edward Young 


TWENTY-EIGHTH 

More helpful than all wis- .. 

dom is one draught of sim¬ 
ple human pity that will not . 

forsake us. 


George Eliot 














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TWENTY-NINTH 

To-morrow cannot make or 

mar . 

To-day whate’er the da-y be: 

Nor can the men which now . 

we are 

Foresee the men we may .. 

be. 

Owen Meredith 






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FIRST 




This life is not for. com¬ 
plaint but for satisfaction. 

Thoreau 


SECOND 

Each, where his tasks or 

pleasures call, .. 

They pass, and heed each 
other not, 

There is who heeds, who .***** 

holds them all, 

In His large love and .. 

boundless thought. 

Bryant 


THIRD 


It’s good to live only a 
moment at a time. ... It 
isn’t for you and me to lay 
plans; we’ve nothing to do 
but to obey and trust. 

George Eliot 


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FOURTH 


The soul refuses limits, 
and always affirms an Opti¬ 
mism, never a Pessimism. 

Emerson 













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FIFTH 

All is of God! If He but 
wave His hand. 

The mists collect, the rain 
falls thick and loud, 

Till, with a smile of light on 
sea and land, 

Lo! He looks back from the 
departing cloud. 

Longfellow 


SIXTH 

When the morning with its 
fresh beginning comes, all 
yesterdays should be yester¬ 
days, with which we have 
nothing to do. 

Ralph W. Trine 


SEVENTH 

Humor, warm and all-em¬ 
bracing as _ the sunshine, 
bathes its objects in a genial 
and abiding light. 

E. P. Whipple 


EIGHTH 

Therefore, all seasons shall 
be sweet to thee. 

Whether the summer clothe 
the general earth 
With greenness, or the red¬ 
breast sit and sing 
Betwixt the tufts of snow on 
the bare branch. 

Coleridge 
















NINTH 


Fortify yourself with con¬ 
tentment, for this is an im¬ 
pregnable fortress. 

Epictetus 


TENTH 

A gloomy religion is far . 

from God. A sad gospel is 

a contradiction in terms, like . 

a black sun. 

Henry van Dyke .. 


ELEVENTH 

It looks like to me there’s . 

jest as much kindness and 

goodness in folks nowadays . 

as there was when I was 
young. 

Eliza Calvert Hall 


TWELFTH 

The One remains, the many .. 

change and pass; 

Heaven’s light forever shines, .. 

earth’s shadows fly. 

Shelley 














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THIRTEENTH 

By all means begin your 

folio; even if the doctor will *.. 

not give you a year, even if 

he hesitates about a month, . 

make one brave push and see 

what can be accomplished in . 

a week. 

Robert Louis Stevenson 


FOURTEENTH 

Because He is at my right 

hand, I shall not be . 

moved. 

Therefore my heart is glad, . 

and my glory rejoiceth: 

My flesh also shall rest in 
hope. 

Psalm xvi 


FIFTEENTH 

Not in vain the distance bea¬ 
cons, forward, forward ... 

let us range. 

Let the great world spin for.. 

ever down the ringing 

grooves of change. .. . 

T ennyson 


SIXTEENTH 


Endurance is nobler than 
strength, and patience than 
beauty. 


Ruskin 














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SEVENTEENTH 

And yet as angels to some 
brighter dreams 

Call to the soul when man . 

doth sleep, 

So some strange thoughts . 

transcend our wonted 
themes. 

And into glory peep, 

Henry Vaughan 


EIGHTEENTH 

“People never feel so much .*. 

like angels as when they are 

doing what little good they . 

may.” 

Hawthorne . 


NINETEENTH 


A merry heart goes all the 
day, 

Your sad tires in a mile-a. 

Shakespeare 


TWENTIETH 


What a sense of security 
in an old book which Time 
has criticised for usl 


Lowell 














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TWENTY-FIRST 

For blessings ever wait on . 

virtuous deeds, 

And though a late, a sure . 

reward succeeds. 

William Congreve . 


TWENTY-SECOND 


It is better to fight for the 
good than to rail at the ill. 

Tennyson 


TWENTY-THIRD 


I make it a virtue to be 
content with my middling¬ 
ness. 

George Eliot 


TWENTY-FOURTH 

The world rolls round,—mis¬ 
trust it not, . 

Befalls again what once be¬ 
fell; . 

All things return, both sphere 
and mote. 


Emerson 














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TWENTY-FIFTH 


Age is a matter of feeling, 
not of years. 

George William Curtis 


TWENTY-SIXTH 

Whatever perished with my 

ships, . 

I only know the best re¬ 
mains; _ # ... 

A song of praise is on my 

lips # . 

For losses which are now 
my gains. 

Whittier 


TWENTY-SEVENTH 


Keep the imagination sane, 
—that is one of the truest 
conditions of communion 
with heaven. 

Hawthorne 


TWENTY-EIGHTH 


God bless the Present! It is 
ALL; . . 

It has been Future and it 
shall be Past; 

Awake and Live! thy strength 
recall. 

And in one trinity unite 


them fast. 


Lowell 
















TWENTY-NINTH 


With his daily work and 
his books, many a man whom 
the world thought forlorn 
has found life worth living. 

Charles W. Eliot 


THIRTIETH 

Some rainbow shreds of Hope 
and Joy; 

Faith’s golden stripes with¬ 
out alloy; . 

Scraps of ambition bright to 

see; . 

A few white threads of char- 

>r ity; . 

Much of the purple cloth of 
Pain; 

Love’s. fabric, like a golden . 

vein 

Between the strands of Hate .. 

and Strife;— 

Such is the patchwork we 
call Life. 

Clinton Scollard 


THIRTY-FIRST 

Winter is past; the heart of 
Nature warms 

Beneath the wrecks of unre- . 

sisted storms; 

Doubtful at first, suspected 

more than seen, . 

The southern slopes are 

fringed with tender . 

green. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes 














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FIRST 

The compliments of the .. 

season to my worthy mas¬ 
ters, and a merry first of .. 

April to us all! 

Charles Lamb .. 


SECOND 

Look on this beautiful world . 

and read the truth 

In her fair page: see, every . 

season brings 

New change to her, of ever¬ 
lasting youth. 

Bryant 


THIRD 


What do we live for, if it 
is not to make life less dif¬ 
ficult to each other? . 

George Eliot 


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FOURTH 


What’s gone and what’s past 
help . 

Should be past grief. 

Shakespeare 













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FIFTH 


Life only avails, not the 
having lived. 


Emerson 


SIXTH 

Whatever happens at all 
happens as it should; thou 
wilt find this true, if thou 
shouldst watch it narrowly. 

Marcus Aurelius 


SEVENTH 

Be sure that God 
Ne’er dooms to waste the 
strength He deigns im¬ 
part. 

Browning 


EIGHTH 

Do not think it wasted 
time to submit yourself to 
any influence which may 
bring upon you any noble 
feeling. 


Ruskin 














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NINTH 

If we try to influence or . 

elevate others, we shall soon 
see that success is in propor¬ 
tion to their belief of our 
belief in them. 

Drummond, . 


TENTH 

Sweet April I many a .. 

thought 

Is wedded unto thee as . 

hearts are wed; 

Nor shall they fail, till, to . 

its autumn brought, 

Life’s golden fruit is shed. 

Longfellow .. 


ELEVENTH 

The meanest of God’s . 

creatures be made for some 

use, and I’m formed for the . 

wilderness; if you love me 

let me go where my soul . . . 

craves to be ag’in. 

Cooper 


TWELFTH 

No life 

Can be pure in its purpose . 

and strong in its strife, 

And all life not be purer .. 

and stronger thereby. 

Owen Meredith 
















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THIRTEENTH 


An honest man's the no¬ 
blest work of God. 

Alexander Pope 


FOURTEENTH 


Great thoughts, great feel* 
ings. came to them, 

Like instincts unawares. 

Lord Houghton 


FIFTEENTH 


Where there is no hope, 
there can be no endeavor. 

Samuel Johnson 


SIXTEENTH 

Christ never asks us to . 

give up merely for the sake 

of giving up, but always in . 

order to win something bet¬ 
ter. 

Henry van Dyke . 














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SEVENTEENTH 


Little do ye know your 
own blessedness; for to 
travel hopefully is a better 
thing than to arrive. 

Robert Louis Stevenson 


EIGHTEENTH 

And look at the broad-faced 
sun how he smiles 
On the dewy earth that 

smiles in his ray, .... 

On the leaping waters and 

gay young isles; . 

Ay, look and he’ll smile 
thy gloom away. 

Bryant 


NINETEENTH 


There is guidance for each 
of us, and by lowly listening 
we shall hear the right word. 

Emerson 


TWENTIETH 


I profess not talking: only 
this. 

Let each man do his best. 

Shakespeare 
















TWENTY-FIRST 


The cheerful man carries 
with him perpetually, in his 
presence and personality, an 
influence that acts upon oth¬ 
ers as summer warmth on the 
fields and forests. 

J. R. Miller 


TWENTY-SECOND 

The showers come gently, 

and drop daintily to the . 

earth,—with now and then a 

glimpse of sunshine to make . 

the drops bright — like so 
many bubbles of joy. 

“Ik Marvel ” . 


TWENTY-THIRD 

When proud-pied April, . 

dress’d in all his trim, 

Hath put a spirit of youth . 

in everything. 

Shakespeare .. 


TWENTY-FOURTH 

Always there is seed being .. 

sown silently and unseen, 

and everywhere there come .. 

sweet flowers without our 
foresight and labor. 

George Eliot . 














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TWENTY-FIFTH 

Oh! there is never sorrow of 

heart . 

That shall lack a timely end. 

If but to God we turn and . 

ask 

Of Him to be our Friend. . 

Wordsworth 


TWENTY-SIXTH 


Love seems to survive life, 
and to reach beyond it. 

Thackeray 


TWENTY-SEVENTH 

Joy is the mainspring in the 
whole 

Of endless Nature’s calm . 

rotation. 

Joy moves the dazzling . 

wheels that roll 
In the great Time-Piece of 
Creation. 

Schiller 


TWENTY-EIGHTH 


All one’s life is music if 
one touches the notes rightly 
and in time. 


Ruskin 














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TWENTY-NINTH 

I have seen some that have 

promised nothing at first set- ... 

ting out to Ke pilgrims, and 

that one would have thought . 

could not have lived a day, 

that have yet proved very .. 

good pilgrims. 

Btinyan 


THIRTIETH 


Have good-will 
To all that lives, letting un¬ 
kindness die 

And greed and wrath; so that 
your lives be made 
Like soft airs passing by. 

Edwin Arnold 











FIRST 

I love better to count time 
from Spring to Spring; it 
seems to me far more cheer¬ 
ful to reckon the year by 
blossoms than by blight. 

"Ih Marvel " “ 


SECOND 

It was a pleasure to breathe 
the fragrant air of the 
forest; 

It was a pleasure to live that 
bright and happy May 
morning. 

Longfellow 


THIRD 


It’s easy 
why other 
patient. 


finding reasons 
folks should be 

George Eliot 


FOURTH 

The Lord is my light and 
my salvation; whom shall 
I fear? 

The Lord is the strength of 
my life; of whom shall 
I be afraid? 

Psalm xxvii 














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FIFTH 

Truth and goodness sub¬ 
sist forevermore. It is true . 

there is evil and good, night 

and day, but these are not . 

equal. The day is great and 
final. 

Emerson 


SIXTH 

Through wood and stream 

and field and hill and . 

ocean, 

A quickening life from the . 

Earth’s heart has burst. 

As it has ever done, with 
change and motion. 

Shelley 


SEVENTH 


When our hopes break, let 
our patience hold. 

Thomas Fuller 


EIGHTH 

Good-bye to Pain and Care! 

I take 

Mine ease to-day; 

Here where these sunny 

waters break, .. 

And ripples this keen breeze, 

I shake 

All burdens from my heart, .. 

all weary thoughts away. 

Whittier 















NINTH 

Optimism is the faith that . 

leads to achievement; noth¬ 
ing can be done without . 

hope. 

Helen Keller 


TENTH 

How good is man’s life, the 

mere living! how fit to . 

employ 

All the heart and the soul .. 

and the senses forever 

in joy. .. 

Browning 


ELEVENTH 

All things are literally bet¬ 
ter, lovelier, and more beloved 

for the imperfections which . 

have been divinely appointed. 

Ruskin . 


TWELFTH 


Heard melodies are sweet, 
but those unheard 
Are sweeter; therefore, ye 
soft pipes, play on; 

Not to the sensual ear, but, 
more endear'd. 

Pipe to the spirit ditties of 
no tone. 


Keats 

















THIRTEENTH 

I lean sunward all the year,— . 

Copses green or copses sere, 

Time of rose or time of rime. 

Tree-toad chirp or cricket 
chime. 

Clinton Scollard . 


FOURTEENTH 

The best safeguard you 

can throw around yourself is .. 

a determination that you will 

be master of yourself,—that . 

you will not be dictated to 
by moods. 

O. S. Marden . 


FIFTEENTH 


Now God be thanked for 
years enwrought 
With love which softens 
yet! 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning 


SIXTEENTH 


To know 

That which before us lies in 
daily life 

Is the prime wisdom. 


Milton 
















SEVENTEENTH 


Perfect love has a breath 
of poetry which can exalt the 
relations of the least-instruct¬ 
ed human beings. 

George Eliot 


EIGHTEENTH 


Hebe’s here, May is here! 
The air is fresh and sun* 
ny; 

And the fairy bees are busy 
Making golden honey! . 
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 


NINETEENTH 

Sing a song of seasons! .*. 

Something bright in all! 

Flowers in the summer, . 

Fires in the fall! 

Stevenson . .. 


TWENTIETH 

To-day is for the happy, .. 

and to-morrow for the young, 

and yesterday, is not that .. 

dear and here too? 

Thackeray .. 
















TWENTY-FIRST 

Life, believe, is not a dream, .. 

So dark as sages say; 

Oft a little morning rain .. 

Foretells a pleasant day. 

Charlotte Bronte 


TWENTY-SECOND 

All real joy and power of . 

progress in humanity depend 

on finding something to rev- . 

erence. 

Ruskin 


TWENTY-THIRD 

Be good, sweet maid, and 

let who will be clever; . 

Do noble things, not dream 

them all day long: . 

And so make life, death, 
and that vast forever 
One grand, sweet song. 

Charles Kingsley 


TWENTY-FOURTH 

Who finds not Providence all . 

good and wise, 

Alike in what it gives, and . 

what denies? 

Pope 
















TWENTY-FIFTH 

If, however, I can by any 

lucky chance, in these days . 

of evil, rub out one wrinkle 

from the brow of care, or be.. 

guile the heavy heart of one 

moment of sorrow. . . 

Irving 


TWENTY-SIXTH 

I count myself in nothing . 

else so happy, 

As in a soul _ rememb ring . 

my good friends. 

Shakespeare . .. 


TWENTY-SEVENTH 

For the soul that hath lived 
well. 

For the soul that childlike is. 

There is quiet in the spell . 

That brings back early mem- 

° neS ‘ Lowell . 


TWENTY-EIGHTH 


The most 
wisdom is a 
fulness. 


certain sign of 
continual cheer* 

Montaigne 














Map 


TWENTY-NINTH 

Such a starved hank of moss . 

Till, that May morn, 

Blue ran the flash across: . 

Violets were born! 

Browning . 


THIRTIETH 

Let us see if we cannot . 

stay here where He has put 
us on His own conditions. 

Does not His law reach as . 

far as His light? 

Thoreau . 


THIRTY-FIRST 

Who makes perpetual friend 
of Doubt, 

Marks dwarfing vistas round . . 

about. 

But he whose bosom Love .. 

hath found, 

Is by no cramped horizons . 

bound. 


Clinton Scollard 











3iune 


FIRST 

Flowery June, 

When brooks send up a 
cheerful tune. 

And groves a joyous sound. 

Bryant 


SECOND 

Trust thyself; every heart 
vibrates to that iron string. 

Accept the place the divine 
providence has found for 
you. 

Emerson 


THIRD 


Be of good courage, 

And he shall strengthen 
your heart, all ye that hope 
in the Lord. 

Psalm xxxt 


FOURTH 

If all the year were playing 
holidays. 

To sport would be as tedious 
as to work. 

Shakespeare 














June 


FIFTH 

Mankind are always happy 

for having been happy; so . 

that, if you make them hap¬ 
py now, you make them .. 

happy twenty years hence by 

the memory of it. . 

Sydney Smith 


SIXTH 

Ye see not but hear ye not 

the wild winds flying . 

To the future that wakes 

from the past that died? . 

Is grief still sleeping, is joy 

not sighing . 

Outside? 

Swinburne 


SEVENTH 

For if us as knows so lit¬ 
tle can see a bit o’ good and . 

rights, we may be sure, as 

there’s a good and rights . 

bigger nor what we can 
know—I feel it i’ my own 
inside as it must be so. 

George Eliot 


EIGHTH 

A good book is the pre. 

cious life-blood of a master¬ 
spirit, embalmed and treas¬ 
ured up on purpose to a life 
beyond life. 


Milton 














31une 


NINTH 

Let us fall asleep, dear 
friend, in peace: 

A little while, and age and . 

sorrow cease; 

A little while, and life re- . 

born annuls 

Loss and decay and death, 
and all is love. 

Christina Rossetti 


TENTH 


Happiness is not the end 
of life; character is. 

Henry Ward Beecher 


ELEVENTH 

The old order changeth, 

yielding place to new, _ . 

And God fulfills himself in 

many ways, . 

Lest one good custom should 

corrupt the world. . 

Tennyson 


TWELFTH 

To what is good I open the . 

doors of my being, and jeal¬ 
ously shut them against what . 

is bad. 


Helen Keller 














3!une 


THIRTEENTH 

Love not Pleasure; love 

God. This is the Everlast- . 

ing Yea, wherein all contra¬ 
diction is solved: wherein .... 

whoso walks and works it is 
well with him. 

Carlyle . 


FOURTEENTH 


Welcome ever smiles. 

And farewell goes out sigh¬ 
ing. 

Shakespeare 


FIFTEENTH 

A pure heart, a sound . 

body, and a broad, healthy, 
generous mind, backed by a 

determination not to let the . 

years count. 

O. S. Marden . 


SIXTEENTH 

. Let every dawn of morn.- 

ing be to you as the begin¬ 
ning of life, and every set- .. 

ting sun be to you as its 
close. 


Ruskitt 














33unc 

SEVENTEENTH 


By his life alone, 
Graciotis and sweet, the bet¬ 
ter way was shown. 

Whittier 


EIGHTEENTH 

We must dare to be hap- . 

py, and dare to confess it, 
regarding ourselves always as 
the depositories, not as the 
authors of our own joy. 

Amiel . 


NINETEENTH 

Then in Life’s goblet freely ... 

press 

The leaves that give it bit- .. 

terness. 

Longfellow 


TWENTIETH 

The tips of the half-unopened .. 

rose. 

And the early bird, as he 
carols free. 

Sings to his little love and 

thee. -.. 

J. G. Percvval 














June 


TWENTY-FIRST 

God’s gladness is not the . 

absence of sorrow, but di¬ 
vine comfort overcoming sor... 

row. 

J. R. Miller . 


TWENTY-SECOND 

The little tents the wild flow¬ 
ers raise . 

Are tabernacles where Love 

prays . 

And Beauty preaches all the 
days. 

Madison Cawein . 


TWENTY-THIRD 

True love’s the gift which . 

God has given 

To man alone beneath the . 

heaven. 

Scott .. 


TWENTY-FOURTH 


The right hand of the Lord 
doeth valiantly. 


Psalm cxviii 














Slurxc 


TWENTY-FIFTH 

In the sweet face of the buds 

I see . 

That God swings this flower- 

scented sphere, . . 

Like a great censer, in the 
purple void! 

Thomas Bailey Aldrich . 


TWENTY-SIXTH 


Sorrow is the mere rust of 
the soul. Activity will cleanse 
and brighten it. 

Johnson 


TWENTY-SEVENTH 

'Tis my delight, alone in . 

summer shade. 

To pipe a simple song for . 

thinking hearts. 

Wordsworth . 


TWENTY-EIGHTH 

The sunshine and the grass . 

in the far-off years still live 

in us, and transform our . 

perception into love. 

George Eliot 














3Iune 


TWENTY-NINTH 


Be still, sad heart, and cease 
repining; 

Behind the clouds is the sun 
still shining. 


Longfellow 


THIRTIETH 


On every occasion ask thy¬ 
self, What is there in this 
which is intolerable and past 
bearing? for thou wilt be 
ashamed to confess. 


Marcus Aurelius 















5Sulp 


FIRST 

And power was with him in 
the night, 

Which makes the darkness 
and the light, 

And dwells not in the light 
alone. 

T ennyson 


SECOND 

Joy in one’s work i9 the 
consummate tool without 
which the work may be done 
indeed, but without its finest 
perfection. 

Phillips Brooks 


THIRD 

Let us cry “All good things 
Are ours, nor soul helps flesh 
more now than flesh 
helps soul!” 

Browning 


FOURTH 

Humility, which has a 
calmness of spirit and a 
world of other blessings at¬ 
tending upon it. 

Isaak Walton 














3uli> 


FIFTH 

Be cheerful also, and seek ........................... 

not external help nor this 

tranquillity which others ..... 

give. 

Marcus Aurelius 


SIXTH 

See golden days* fruitful of .*. . . 

golden deeds. 

With joy and love triumph- 
ing. 

Milton .. 


SEVENTH 

Happiness depends, as Nature . 

shows. 

Less on exterior things than .. 

most suppose. 

Cowper . 


EIGHTH 

We reap what we sow but . 

Nature has love over and 
above that justice, and gives 

us shadow and blossom and . 

fruit that spring from no 

planting of ours. . 

George Eliot 













3lulj> 


NINTH 

My brother, the brave man . 

has to give his Life away. 

Give it, I advise thee:—thou . 

dost not expect to sell thy 
Life in an adequate manner? 

Carlyle 


TENTH 

Here all is harmony, and 
here 

Care, garment-like, is cast .. 

aside; 

Ours is the vision of the 

seer; .. 

And, since our dearest 

dreams abide, .. 

The vearning soul is satis¬ 
fied. 

Clinton Scollard 


ELEVENTH 

It is dangerous to abandon .. 

oneself to the luxury of 
grief: it deprives one of cour¬ 
age, and even of the wish 
for recovery. 

Amiel . 


TWELFTH 

Thy word is true from the . 

beginning: 

And every one of Thy .. 

righteous judgments endur- 
eth forever. 


Psalm xiv 














31ulp 


THIRTEENTH 

Blessings be with them, and 
eternal praise 

Who gave us noble loves and 
nobler cares! 

The Poets, who on earth . 

have made us heirs 

Of truth and pure delight by .. 

heavenly lays. 

Wordsworth 


FOURTEENTH 


The world deals good- 
naturedly with good-natured 
people. 

Thackeray 


FIFTEENTH 


We invite and attract the 
influences and conditions we 
desire. 

Ralph W. Trine 


SIXTEENTH 

There are notes of joy from 
the hang-bird and wren, 

And the gossip of swallows .*. 

through all the sky; 

The ground-squirrel gaily . 

chirps by his den. 

And the wilding bee hums ... 

merrily by. 


Bryant 














Sul? 


SEVENTEENTH 

The ground-work of all . 

happiness is health. Take 
care of this ground, and let 
as many glad imaginations 
throng it as possible. 

Leigh Hunt .. 


EIGHTEENTH 


There is a great opening 
in the cheering-up business, 
plenty of room for every¬ 
body, and it does not inter¬ 
fere with any other calling. 

O. .S’. Marden 


NINETEENTH 

For he lives twice who can . 

at once employ 

The present well, and e’en . 

the past enjoy. 

Pope . 


TWENTIETH 

I own that I am disposed .. 

to say grace upon twenty 

other occasions in the course . 

of the day besides my dinner. 

Charles Lamb . 














3lulp 


TWENTY-FIRST 

The gray-eyed morn smiles . 

on the frowning night. 

Chequering the eastern clouds .. 

with streaks of light. 

Shakespeare . 


TWENTY-SECOND 

I venture to say that no . 

one ever heard the crow ut¬ 
ter a complaining or discon- . 

solate note. He is always 
cheery. 

John Burroughs . 


TWENTY-THIRD 

Burying the weeds at the 
roots of the flowers, the evil 

was made to minister to the •••••••. 

good; and the nettle, the 

plantain, and all their kind . 

were transmuted by nature’s 

fine chemistry into pinks. 

lilies and roses. 

Elisa Calvert Hall 


TWENTY-FOURTH 


What a thing friendship 
is, world without end! 

Browning 














31ulp 


TWENTY-FIFTH 

Work is the grand cure . 

for all the maladies and mis¬ 
eries that ever beset man- . 

kind, — honest work which 
you intend getting done. 

Carlyle . 


TWENTY-SIXTH 

To him that holdeth Nature 

near his heart, .. 

The brooks are hymning 

praises, and the sea ................... 

Is ever rolling some grand 

anthem forth! . 

Thomas Bailey Aldrich 


TWENTY-SEVENTH 

The most anxious people .... 

in the world are Christians 

—Christians who misunder.... 

stand the nature of growth. 

Henry Drummond . 


TWENTY-EIGHTH 

He prayeth best, who loveth 

best . 

All things both great and 

small; . 

For the dear God who lov¬ 
eth us. 

He made and loveth all. ... 

Coleridge 














Mv 

TWENTY-NINTH 


Dream-land will never be 
exhausted, until we enter the 
land of dreams. 

' y Ik Marvel" 


THIRTIETH 


Heaven will be inherited 
by every man who has heav¬ 
en in his soul. 

Henry Ward Beecher 


THIRTY-FIRST 


Glorious fountain! 

Let th-y heart be 
Fresh, changeful, constant. 
Upward like thee! 

Lowell 












August 


FIRST 

The contemplation of Na- .. 

ture brings peace and joy. 

Her patient ways shame . 

hasty man. 

Charles W. Eliot . 


SECOND 


Love, hope, fear, faith,— 
these make humanity; 
These are its sign, and note 
and character. 

Browning 


THIRD 


Kindness in us is the 
honey that blunts the sting 
of unkindness in another. 

Lando-r 


FOURTH 

Ah, well! for us all, some . 

sweet hope lies 

Deeply hidden from human . 

eyes. 

Whittier 














August 


FIFTH 

The word of the Lord is 
tried: 

He is a buckler to all those 
that trust in Him. 

Psalm xviii 


SIXTH 


The world is a looking- 
glass, and gives back to every 
man the reflection of his 
own face. 

Thackeray 


SEVENTH 

Go to the woods and hills! 

No tears 

Dim the sweet look that Na¬ 
ture wears. 

Longfellow 


EIGHTH 


A happy man or woman is 
a better thing to find than 
a five-pound note. 

Robert Louis Stevenson 















August 


NINTH 

There is a pleasure in the 

pathless woods, . 

There is a rapture by the 

lonely shore, . 

There is society where none 
intrudes. 

Byron 


TENTH 


We are led on, like the 
little children, by a way that 
we know not. 

George Eliot 


ELEVENTH 

I work my work. All its re¬ 
sults are Thine. 

I know the loyal deed be. 

comes a fact 

Which thou wilt deal with: . 

nor will I repine 

Although I miss the value . 

of the act. 

Owen Meredith 


TWELFTH 


Pleasure and action make 
the hours seem short. 

Shakespeare 














August 


THIRTEENTH 

Dare to be true; nothing can . 

need a lie; 

A fault which needs it most . 

grows two thereby. 

George Herbert .. 


FOURTEENTH 

Let us draw a lesson from *. 

nature, which always works 

by short ways. When the . 

fruit is ripe, it falls. 

Emerson . 


FIFTEENTH 

So shalt thou come from the 
Land of Dreams, 

With love and peace to .. 

this world of strife: 

And the light which over .. 

that border streams 
Shall lie on the path of 

thy daily life. . 

Bryant 


SIXTEENTH 

There is no use in arguing . 

with the inevitable. The 
only argument available with 

an east wind is to put on . 

your overcoat. 


Lowell 














^lugujst 


SEVENTEENTH 


O yet we trust that somehow 
good 

Will be the final goal of ill. 

Tennyson 


EIGHTEENTH 

So was man created, to 
hunger for the ideal that is 
above himself, until one day 

there is magic in the air, and . 

the eyes of a girl rest upon 
him. 

J. M. Barrie 


NINETEENTH 


The lands are lit 
With all the autumn blaze 
of Golden Rod: 

And everywhere the Purple 
Asters nod 

And bend and wave and 
flit. 


Helen Hunt Jackson 


TWENTIETH 


Blessings may appear un¬ 
der the shape of pains, losses, 
and disappointments, but let 
him have patience and he 
will see them in their proper 
figure. 


Addison 














August 

TWENTY-FIRST 


Faith, the stronger for ex¬ 
tremity. 

Becomes prophetic. 

George Eliot 


TWENTY-SECOND 

The world goes up and the 

world goes down, .. 

And the sunshine follows 

the rain: ... 

And yesterday’s sneer and 
yesterday’s frown 

Can never come over again. •••«»•••*•••••«.••••• 
Charles Kingsley 


TWENTY-THIRD 

However mean your life is.. 

meet it and live it; do not 
shun it and call it hard 

names.—Love your life, poor .... 

as it is. 

Thoreau .. 


TWENTY-FOURTH 

He who, from zone to 

zone, . 

Guides through the boundless 

sky thy certain flight, . 

In the long way that I must 
tread alone. 

Will lead my steps aright. . 

Bryant 














Httgust 


TWENTY-FIFTH 


Every right action and 
true thought sets the seal of 
its beauty on person and 
face* 

Ruskm 






TWENTY-SIXTH 


They are never alone who 
are accompanied with noble 
thoughts. 

Sir Philip Sidney 






TWENTY-SEVENTH 

The pastures are clothed with 

flocks; . 

The valleys also are covered 

over with corn; .. 

They shout for joy, they also 

sing. . . 

Psalm Ixv 


TWENTY-EIGHTH 

Who does the best his cir- .«««.«..» 

cumstance allows 

Does well, acts nobly; angels ... 

could no more. 

Edward Young ...... 












Bugust 


TWENTY-NINTH 

My undissuaded heart I hear 

Whisper courage in my* ear. . 

With voiceless calls, the an¬ 
cient earth ... 

Summons me to a daily 
birth. 

Robert Louis Stevenson 


THIRTIETH 


Do good to thy friend to 
keep him, to thy enemy to 
gain him. 

Benjamin Franklin 


THIRTY-FIRST 

Each least glance gives gifts 
of grace, redressing 

Grief’s worst wrongs: each .. 

mother’s nurturing 

breast . 

Feeds a flower of bliss, be¬ 
yond all blessing .. 

Blest. 

Swinburne 














September 


FIRST 

Not only around our infancy 

Doth heaven with all its .......... 

splendors lie; 

Daily, with souls that cringe . 

and plot. 

We Sinais climb and know 
it not. 

Lowell 

SECOND 

Hope and tranquillity open 

the channels of the body, so . 

that the life-forces go bound¬ 
ing through it in such a way . 

that disease can rarely get a 
foothold. 

Ralph W. Trine . 


THIRD 

Every man's work, pur- ... 

sued steadily, tends to be¬ 
come an end in itself and so 
to bridge over the loveless ********* 

chasms of his life. « 

Georoe Eliot . 


FOURTH 

Season of mists and mellow 
fruitfulness 1 

Close bosom-friend of the 
maturing sun; 

Conspiring with him how to 

load and bless #••••••*•••••••••••••••••••••••••••*••••••••••••••• 

With fruit the vines that 
round the thatch-eaves 
run. 


Keats 












September 


FIFTH 

In _ the fields of God’s . 

planting there is room. No 
walls of brick and mortar 
cramp one; no fictitious dis¬ 
tinctions mold your habit. 

“Ik Marvel” . 


SIXTH 

Hitch your wagon to a . 

star. Let us not falter in 

paltry works which serve our .. 

pot and bag alone. 

Emerson . 


SEVENTH 

There is comfort in the 

strength of love; .. 

*Twill make a thing endura¬ 
ble which else . 

Would overset the brain, 
or break the heart. 

Wordsworth . 


EIGHTH 


I love honest laughter as 
I do sunlight; but not dis¬ 
honest. 


Carlyle 














September 


NINTH 

It is the bright and cheer- .. 

ful spirit that wins the final 

triumph. . 

O. S. Harden 


TENTH 

Oh, good gigantic smile o’ .. 

the brown old earth. 

This autumn morning! How 
he sets his bones 
To bask in the sun. 

Browning .. 


ELEVENTH 


What makes life dreary is 
the want of motive. 

George Eliot 


TWELFTH 

There is some soul of good- .. 

ness in things evil, 

Would men observingly dis- .. 

til it out. 

Shakespeare . 














September 


THIRTEENTH 


Cheerfulness is just as 
natural to the heart of a 
man in strong health as col¬ 
or to his cheek. 

Ruskin 


FOURTEENTH 


Great truths are portions of 
the soul of man; 

Great souls are portions of 
eternity. 

Lowell 


FIFTEENTH 


Depth in philosophy bring- 
eth men’s minds about to 

religion. . 

Bacon 


SIXTEENTH 

The quality of fnercy is not 
strain’d. 

It droppeth as the gentle rain . 

from heaven 

Upon the place beneath. It •••••*•.. 
is twice blest: 

It blesseth him that gives 
and him that takes. 

Shakespeare 














September 


SEVENTEENTH 

Would you carry all the 

joyousness and buoyancy of . 

youth into your maturer 

years? Then have care con- . 

cerning but one thing,—how 
you live in your thought 
world. 

Ralph W. Trine 


EIGHTEENTH 

The heart is still young in 

the old mother-soil: .. 

Never bluer heavens nor 

greener sod . 

Since the round world rolled 

from the hand of God. . . . 

John Vance Cheney 


NINETEENTH 


To be doing go<?d for some 
one else is the life of most 
good women. 

Thackeray 


TWENTIETH 


The man taught enough by 
life’s dream, of the rest 
to make sure. 

Browning 














September 


TWENTY-FIRST 

The dear God hears and 

pities all; . 

He knoweth all our wants; 

And what we blindly ask of . 

Him 

His love withholds or 

grants. . 

Whittier 


TWENTY-SECOND 


Every duty we omit ob¬ 
scures some truth we should 
have known. 

Ruskin 


TWENTY-THIRD 

Courage is contagious. . 

Kindness is contagious. 

Manly integrity is _ conta- . 

gious. All the positive vir¬ 
tues, with red blood in their 

veins, are contagious. . 

Henry van Dyke 


TWENTY-FOURTH 

The old dew still falls on the .;.. 

old sweet flowers. 

The old sun revives the new- 

fledged hours, .. 

The old summer rears the 

new-born roses. . 

Swinburne 














September 


TWENTY-FIFTH 

Love the art, poor as it . 

may be, which thou hast 

learned, and be content with . 

it. 

Marcus Aurelius 


TWENTY-SIXTH 


Whatever is worth doing 
at all is w T orth doing well. 

Lord Chesterfield 


TWENTY-SEVENTH 

Within the hearts of all men 

lie .. 

These promises of wider 

bliss, . 

Which blossom into hopes 

that cannot die, . 

In sunny hours like this. 

Lowell 


TWENTY-EIGHTH 

Seeing only what is fair, 

Sipping only what is sweet, 

Thou dost mock at fate and 

care, . 

Leave the chaff, and take 

the wheat. ... 

Emersor. 














September 


TWENTY-NINTH 


More things are wrought by 
prayer 

Than this world dreams of. 

Tennyson 


THIRTIETH 

One lesson, Nature, let me 

learn of thee, .. 

One lesson which in every 

wind is blown, ... 

Of toil unsevered from tran¬ 
quillity. 

Matthew Arnold *. 









October 


FIRST 


Many joys may be given to 
men which cannot be bought 
for gold. 

Ruskin 


SECOND 

God be thanked for books. •*••••*••• 
They are the voices of the 

distant and the dead and .. 

make us heirs of the spirit¬ 
ual life of the past ages. . 

William Ellery Channing 


THIRD 

No generous heart may vain¬ 
ly turn aside 

In ways of sympathy; no .. 

soul so dead 

But may awaken strong and 

glorified, .. 

If something good be said. 

James Whitcomb Riley *.. 

(Copyright, 1905. Bobbs- 

Merrill Co.) 


FOURTH 




I am always well pleased 
with a country Sunday. 

Addison 














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FIFTH 

Yea, though I walk through 
the valley of the shadow of 
death, I will fear no evil: 
for thou art with me; thy 
rod and thy staff they com¬ 
fort me. 

Psalm xxiii 


SIXTH 

For love, and beauty, and de- 

there is no death nor 
change; their might 

h-xceeds our organs which en¬ 
dure 

No light, being themselves 
obscure. 

Shelley 


SEVENTH 

The gods of the hearth 
exist for us still; and let all 
new faith be tolerant of that 
fetishism, lest it bruise its 
own roots. 

George Eliot 


EIGHTH 

Sweet are the uses of ad¬ 
versity, 

Which, like the toad, ugly 
and venomous. 

Wears yet a precious jewel 
in his head. 

Shakespeare . 














October 


NINTH 


Discontent is the want of 
self-reliance; it is infirmity 
of will. 

Emerson 


TENTH 


Be to her virtues very kind; 
Be to her faults a little 
blind. 

Matthew Prior 


ELEVENTH 


God, from a beautiful ne¬ 
cessity, is Love. 

Tup per 


TWELFTH 


A thousand cheerful omens 


Hope of yet brighter days 
whose dawn is nigh. 

Bryant 














October 


THIRTEENTH 

Work is the inevitable con. 

dition of human life, the 

true source of human wel- . 

fare. 

Tolstoi 


FOURTEENTH 

Self - reverence, self-knowl- . 

edge, self-control, 

These three alone lead life . 

to sovereign power. 

Tennyson . 


FIFTEENTH 

It is not only in finished 
undertakings that we ought 

to honor useful labor. A .. 

spirit goes out of the man 

who means execution, which . 

outlives the most untimely 
end. 

Stevenson 


SIXTEENTH 


Contentment is better than 
divinations or visions. 

Landor 














October 


SEVENTEENTH 

Build to-day, then, strong 

and sure, . 

With a firm and ample 

base; . 

And ascending and secure 
Shall to-morrow find its 

place. .... 

Longfellow 


EIGHTEENTH 

If hero means sincere man, 
why may not every one of us 

be a hero? . 

Carlyle 


NINETEENTH 

I am in love with this . 

green earth; the face of 

town and country; the un- . 

speakable rural solitudes and 
the sweet security of streets. 

Charles Lamb 


TWENTIETH 

Hope springs eternal in the . 

human breast: 

Man never is, but always to . 

be blest. 














October 


TWENTY-FIRST 


Happiness is the natural 
flower of duty. 

Phillips Brooks 


TWENTY-SECOND 

You must hear the bird's 

song without attempting to . 

render it into nouns and 

verbs. Cannot we be a lit- .. 

tie abstemious and obedient? 

Cannot we let the morning 

be? .. 

Emerson 


TWENTY-THIRD 

Howe’er it be, it seems to 

me . 

’Tis only noble to be good. 

Kind hearts are more than ... 

coronets. 

And simple faith than Nor¬ 
man blood. ..*. 

Tennyson 


TWENTY-FOURTH 

History records man’s tri- .. 

umphant ascent. Every halt 

in his progress has been but .. 

a pause before a mighty leap 
forward. 


Helen Keller 














October 


TWENTY-FIFTH 


Let us be thankful for our 
race as we think of the love 
that blesses some of us. 

Thackeray 


TWENTY-SIXTH 

God means every man to be 
happy, be sure. 

He sends us no sorrows that . 

have not some cure. 

Owen Meredith 


TWENTY-SEVENTH 


And every misery that I 
miss is a new mercy: and 
therefore let us be thankful. 

Isaak Walton 


TWENTY-EIGHTH 


Everything comes if a man 
will only wait. 

Disraeli 














October 


TWENTY-NINTH 

’Tis true, *tis certain; man 
though dead retains 

Part of himself: the immor. 

tal mind remains. 

Pope . 


THIRTIETH 


The intellectual life may 
be kept clean and healthful 
if man will live the life of 
nature and not import into 
his mind difficulties which 
are none of his. 

Emerson 




THIRTY-FIRST 


Let nothing disturb thee. 
Nothing affright thee; 

All things are passing; 

God never changeth. 

Longfellow 


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J^obember 


FIRST 

The world is so full of a . 

number of things, 

I’m sure we should all be as . 

happy as kings. 

Robert Louis Stevenson 


SECOND 


The real test of character 
is Joy. For what you re¬ 
joice in, that you love. And 
what you love, that you like. 

Henry van Dyke 


THIRD 

Glorious are the woods in 

their latest gold and . 

crimson. 

Yet our full-leaved willows . 

are in their freshest 

green. . 

Bryant 


FOURTH 

True love interprets right . 

alone. 

His light upon the letter . 

dwells. 

For all the spirit is his own. 

Tennyson 














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FIFTH 

I hear folks prayin’ for 

rest and wishin’ for rest, . 

but, honey, all my prayer 

was “Lord, give me work .. 

and strength enough to do 

it.” . 

Eliza Calvert Hall 


SIXTH 

Good never comes unmixed, 
or so it seems. 

Having two faces, as some 
images 

Are carved of foolish gods; . 

one face is ill; 

But one heart lies beneath, .. 

and that is good. 

Lowell 


SEVENTH 


Give earth yourself, go up 
for gain above 1 

Browning 


EIGHTH 

Sympathy is good, but it 

must do more than listen .. 

patiently to the recital of 

trouble; it must seek to put . 

a little new strength into the 
sad and weary heart. 

J. R. Miller . 














^obember 


NINTH 


Wait on the Lord; be of 
good courage, and He shall 
strengthen thine heart. 

Psalm xxvii 


TENTH 

God’s glory lies not out of 
reach. 

The moss we crush be. 

neath our feet. 

The pebbles on the wet sea- . 

beach. 

Have solemn meanings 
strange and sweet. 

Owen Meredith 


ELEVENTH 

Honor and shame from no . 

condition rise; 

Act well your part, there all .. 

the honor lies. 

Pope 


TWELFTH 

Be satisfied with success . 

in even the smallest matter, 

and think that even such a . 

result is no trifle. 

Marcus Aurelius 














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THIRTEENTH 

God always gives us 

strength enough and sense . . 

enough for what He wants 

us to do; if we either tire .. 

ourselves or puzzle ourselves, 
it is our own fault. 

Ruskin 


FOURTEENTH 

Things at their worst will 
either cease, or else 

climb upward . 

To what they were before. 

Shakespeare . 


FIFTEENTH 

Know well, my soul, God’s 

hand controls .. 

Whate’er thou fearest; 

Round Him in calmest mu- .. 

sic rolls 

Whate’er thou hearest. 

Whittier 


SIXTEENTH 

Put God in your debt. . 

Every stroke shall be re¬ 
paid. _ The longer the pay- . 

ment is withholden, the bet¬ 
ter for you. 


Emerson 














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SEVENTEENTH 

A time is for mourning, a 
season for grief to sigh; 

But were we not fools and . 

blind, by day to devote 
us . 

As thralls to the darkness, 
unseen of the sundawn’s 

eye ? . 

Swinburne 


EIGHTEENTH 


The sweetest type of 
heaven is home. 

J. G. Holland 


NINETEENTH 

We see no white-winged 

angels now. But yet men . 

are led away from threaten¬ 
ing destruction,—a hand is . 

put into theirs, which leads 
them forth gently towards a 
calm and bright land. 

George Eliot 


TWENTIETH 

The best is yet to be, 

The last of life, for which . 

the first was made: 

Our times are in His hand .. 

Who saith, “A whole I 
planned.” 


Browning 














J^obmber 


TWENTY-FIRST 


For there is a perennial 
nobleness, and even sacred¬ 
ness, in Work. 

Carlyle 


TWENTY-SECOND 

And if I give thee honor 

due, . 

Mirth, admit me of thy crew. 

To live with her and live . 

with thee, 

In unreproved pleasures free. . 

Milton 


TWENTY-THIRD 


Christ is the source of Joy 
to men in the sense in which 
he is the source of Rest. 

Drummond 


TWENTY-FOURTH 

’Tis good to be abroad in .. 

the sun, 

His gifts abide when day is . 

done. 


Lowell 














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TWENTY-FIFTH 


Our strength grows out of 
our weakness. 


Emerson 




TWENTY-SIXTH 

O delved gold the wailers 
heap! 

O strife, O curse, that o'er .-. 

it fall! 

God strikes a silence .«.... 

through you all. 

And “giveth His beloved ................................. 

sleep.” 

Elisabeth Barrett Browning 


TWENTY-SEVENTH 


He that can have patience 

can have what he will. ... 

Benjamin Franklin 


TWENTY-EIGHTH 

Seas roll to waft me, suns .. 

to light me rise; 

My footstool earth, my can... 

opy the skies. 














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TWENTY-NINTH 

Forward, as occasion of- .*. 

fers. Never look round to 

see whether any shall note . 

it. 

Marcus Aurelius . 


THIRTIETH 


A man he seemed of cheer¬ 
ful yesterdays 
And confident to-morrows. 

Wordsworth 









December 


FIRST 


No day is so long 
But it comes at last to ves¬ 
per-song. 

Longfellow 


SECOND 


Often the soul is ripened 
into fuller goodness while 
age has spread an ugly film. 

George Eliot 


THIRD 

But this she knows, in joys 
and woes. 

That saints will aid if men 
will call: 

For the blue sky bends over 
all. 

Coleridge 


FOURTH 

By being happy we sow 
anonymous benefits upon the 
world, which remain un¬ 
known even to ourselves. 

Stevenson 














December 


FIFTH 


Truth, however painful, 
has always something brac¬ 
ing and sustaining about it. 

Arthur C. Benson 


SIXTH 

But hushed be every thought . 

that springs 

From out the bitterness of .. 

things. 

Wordsworth 


SEVENTH 

Clouds weave the Summer •••••*♦•*••••••••••••••••••••••••••#••••••#•#•♦•••• 

into the season of Autumn; 

and Youth rises from dashed .... 

hopes into the stature of a 
man* 

“Ik Marvel " . 


EIGHTH 

The less kind I found for¬ 
tune at one time, the more .....•. 

I expected from her another, 

and being now at the bottom .... 

of her wheel, every new 
revolution might lift, but 

could not depress me. .*. 

Goldsmith 













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NINTH 

Truth forever on the scaffold. 

Wrong forever on the 
throne,— .. 

Yet that scaffold sways the 

Future, and behind the . 

dim unknown, 

Standeth God within the 
shadow, keeping watch 
above his own. 

Lowell 


TENTH 

Life is a series of sur¬ 
prises. We do not guess to- . 

day the mood, the pleasure, 

the power of to-morrow, . 

when we are building up our 

being. . 

Emerson 


ELEVENTH 

Yet I argue not 

Against Heav’n’s hand or . 

will, nor bate a jot 

Of heart or hope; but still . 

bear up and steer 

Right onward. . 

Milton 


TWELFTH 

If anything is possible for 
man and conformable to his 
nature, think that this can 
be attained by thyself too.. 

Marcus Aurelius 














December 


THIRTEENTH 

There is no man’s mind of . 

so discordant and jarring a 

temper in which a tunable . 

disposition may not strike a 
harmony. 

Sir Thomas Browne . 


FOURTEENTH 

. There is a power in the 

direct glance of a sincere and . 

loving soul, which will do 

more to dissipate prejudice ... 

and kindle charity than the 
most elaborate arguments. 

George Eliot . 


FIFTEENTH 

It’s wiser being good than 

bad; . 

It’s safer being meek than 

fierce: . 

It’s fitter being sane than 
mad. 

Browning .*. 


SIXTEENTH 

It is positively sinful to 

suppress _ the mirthful ten.■ 

dencies < in the young people 

—bubbling over, joyous and .. 

happy, exulting in mere ex¬ 
istence. 

O. S. Marden .*. 














December 


SEVENTEENTH 


Faith is Love taking the 
form of aspiration. 

William Ellery Channing 


EIGHTEENTH 


Blessed is he who has 
found his work; let him ask 
no other blessedness. 

Carlyle 


NINETEENTH 

Attempt the end, and never . . 

stand to doubt; 

Nothing’s so hard but search .... 

will find it out. 

Robert Herrick 


TWENTIETH 


Lord, thou hast been our 
dwelling-place in all gener¬ 
ations. 

Psalm cx 














December 


TWENTY-FIRST 


Love and good will stimu¬ 
late and build up the body; 
hatred and malice corrode 
and tear it down. 

Ralph W. Trine 


TWENTY-SECOND 

Welcome joy, and welcome 
sorrow, 

Lethe’s wand and Hermes’ .. 

feather; 

Come to-day and come to- .. 

morrow, 

I do love you both to¬ 
gether 1 

Keats 


TWENTY-THIRD 

Honor and shame from no .. 

condition rise. 

Act well your part, there all .. 

the honor lies. 

Pope 


TWENTY-FOURTH 

If life be so tempered by . 

high motive as to make ac¬ 
tions always good, Faith is . 

unconsciously won. 

“Ik Marvel” 














December 


TWENTY-FIFTH 

At Christmas play, and make . 

good cheer, 

For Christmas comes but . 

once a year. 

T usser 


TWENTY-SIXTH 


Shall I not call God the 
Beautiful, who daily showeth 
himself so to me in his gifts? 

Emerson 


TWENTY-SEVENTH 

For thence a paradox— _ .. 

Which comforts while it 

mocks— < # .. 

Shall life succeed in that it 

seems to fail. 

Browning 


TWENTY-EIGHTH 


To fall in love with a good 
book is one of the greatest 
events that can befall us. 

Drummond 














December 


TWENTY-NINTH 

How far that little candle .... 

throws its beams! 

So shines a good deed in a .. 

naughty world. 

Shakespeare 


THIRTIETH 

Experience has, moreover, .... 

taught me this, that we ruin 

ourselves by impatience. Let . 

us a little permit Nature to 
take her own way. 

Montaigne 


THIRTY-FIRST 

The golden age is not yes¬ 
terday or tomorrow but to- . 

day. It is the age in which 

we live. . 

George IVillian. Curtis 
(Harper & Brothers. Copy¬ 
righted, 1893.) . 













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